Palm Beach homes: House on Seabreeze Ave. brings $7.6M, deed shows

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A couple’s Mediterranean-style house at 225 Seabreeze Ave. in Palm Beach has sold for $7.6 million to Robert Berg of Key Largo, according to the deed.

A house built in 2008 on Seabreeze Avenue in Palm Beach has sold for $7.6 million, the price recorded today with the deed at the Palm Beach County courthouse.

Retired insurance executive Irvin Saltzman and his wife, Robin B. Roshkind, sold the house at 225 Seabreeze Ave. as trustee of a trust in his name, according to the latest property records. He paid $6.33 million for the four-bedroom house — with 7,840 square feet of living space, inside and out — in 2014, a year before he married his wife in the home’s living room, Robin Roshkind told the Daily News earlier this year.

Businessman and real estate investor Robert Berg of Key Largo bought the house, the deed shows. Berg is chairman and CEO of Interfoods of America Inc., a Miami-based company with a subsidiary that is reportedly the largest franchisee of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen fast-food restaurants in the country. Berg’s companies also are affiliated with Taco Bell and Burger King franchises.

The two-story, Mediterranean-style home was built by Palm Beach contractor Paul Wittmann of Wittmann Building Corp. with a layout designed to accommodate foot traffic during parties. French doors in many of the rooms open to lushly landscaped outdoor areas, where a loggia faces the pool area and summer kitchen.

"With east, west and north gardens and all of our French doors open, the house has 'party flow,'" Robin Roshkind told the Daily News. "I put in 14 rose bushes in the front and I have the most gorgeous roses throughout the house — they bloom all year — and I have orchids blooming on the loggia."

The house is in one of the island's oldest Midtown neighborhoods on one of the so-called "sea streets" — Seabreeze, Seaspray and Seaview avenues. Three streets north of Royal Palm Way, the property measures four-tenths of an acre.

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Agent Trina Lane of Waterfront Properties & Club Communities had listed the house for sale in October 2018 for $8.9 million and later dropped the price to $8.2 million, according to records in the multiple listing service.

With longtime ties to Pennsylvania, Irvin Saltzman spent his career in the insurance industry and founded Penn-America Insurance Corp.

The deed lists the sellers’ address as a home on Scarsdale Way in Boca Raton.

The interior features a stair hall with an elevator and a curved stairway with a railed balcony above that overlooks the two-story living room. The floor plan also includes a media room, a home office, a formal dining room and a kitchen with a work island.

A brick driveway at the front of the house offers parking for five cars, while more can be accommodated in the three-car garage and and along a service drive at the rear of the property.

The house has a built-in sound system, impact-resistant windows and doors, a newer generator and a newer multi-zoned air-conditioning system, according to the sales listing.